27. III. 1921

Comrade Dzerzhinsky!

Please write to me, or have your secretary write to me briefly (10—20 lines) about the history of the unsuccessful purchase of 400 (instead of 1000) poods of accessories for boot-making work (and unsuccessfully, incorrectly selected accessories).

I need this in order to indicate: how and what to avoid.

How to avoid such errors¹⁷⁰.

Your Lenin

First published in 1959. Printed from the manuscript in Lenin Collection XXXVI

TO L. B. KAMENEV*

Comrade Kamenev! I have sent Tsiurupa five copies (one for you) of a telephonogram from Petrovsky¹⁷¹.

Just now spoke with Petrovsky. Their Central Executive Committee is meeting today at 8 p.m. They are requesting a reply.

I have arranged with him as follows: he will postpone the decision of the UkrCEC until tomorrow if by 8 p.m. today he does not receive a telephonogram from me (or from you). And I will ask you immediately to consider their question in your commission¹⁷², and if you arrive at an indisputable decision, then you communicate this decision to Kharkov by telephone by 8 p.m. ((I